This watchdog blog, by journalist Norman Oder, offers analysis, commentary, and reportage about the $4.9 billion project to build the Barclays Center arena and 16 high-rise buildings at a crucial site in Brooklyn. Dubbed Atlantic Yards by developer Forest City Ratner in 2003, it was rebranded Pacific Park in 2014 after the Chinese government-owned Greenland Group bought a 70% stake in 15 towers. New York State still calls it Atlantic Yards. Contact: AtlanticYardsReport[at]hotmail.com

Sunday, November 30, 2014

It looks like the tractor-trailer idling on Friday on the Dean Street sidewalk between Flatbush and Sixth avenues left a memento: some oil or fluid, as shown in the photo below, via Atlantic Yards Watch.

It's a reminder that staging construction on public sidewalks might have some unintended consequences and a spur for city and state overseers to take action.